While I, too, found that part intriguing, the article mentions that the guy has been working as a prison guard since being rejected. Could be that he just wanted to make money by being a police officer and that department missed out on a great hire. Not to mention the fact that the nature of the work can definitely change as long as they're promoting from within.
Apparently, they sell software that adds mouseover hotspots to photos (revealing an informative div, like Flickr, Facebook, or Bing). It costs $4000. :/
This thing has been around for ages (hence the Flash). NNDB is kind of a weird thing, though, being created by the Soylent Communications people. I wonder how many people are charged with keeping it updated and whether some wiki features are in the works.
The key word was products, i.e. making a living from building tools for other developers.
There are many more developer-run companies today than there were 10 years ago and the number will continue to grow. There have never been more opportunities to do that than right now.
OSS is an opportunity. It's not about the software; it's about the services and the ecosystem. There are a lot of people making money from Wordpress plugins, themes, and development.
I actually didn't even consider that far; I stopped after "why would you name your product something like condom".
To be fair, it's a solid idea that I imagine would do well regardless of the name. To continue being fair, it's hard to picture the name not being a point of friction in at least some scenarios For instance, picking the name out of a list of possible choices. There are unfortunately likely more limiting scenarios than that.
I'll probably launch a better brand-name that's more family safe, but when I thought up this name my gut instinct was a giant "YES, this is so awesome".
He's selling to sysadmins and developers many (most?) of whom will have to get management approval to purchase. The name can definitely be a limiting factor to sales.
Pocoo have created an impressive "ecosystem" of reusable open source libraries and applications, which mostly are mature and well documented. As far as I know they are not a software company but "people from the Python community that are working under one umbrella", as stated on the page.
I think the most interesting aspect of Pocoo is the documentation and general code quality. Flask is definitely a large inspiration when documenting something.
Also, I don't quite get the Op's point in "just" posting a link (although to fresh version of Pocoo's website).
One note though. "The Pocoo Team is an international group of enthusiasts from the Python community working on open source Python software without commercial interest and for the benefit of others." is exactly why the web (and life, btw) is awesome. I want the pre-ad web back.
Use Firefox with Adblock Plus and you won't see any ads anymore. Everytime I'm behind my MacMini with Safari, which happens from time to time, I am amazed at the quantity of ads that are shoved before my eyeballs. Compared to that, Firefox+Adblock is an oasis of quietness.
I would love to see a hearkening back to those glory days of AMD product towering over Intel's Netburst, even if it's not in the "performance" segment of processors. This type of competition has only brought good things.
